This fear of a supernatural evil*
Is only the reflection of my inexperience in the water
Who will do it if I won’t?
Awake! Matchless blue that crushes evil

Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of lives
I grasp and wield them all
A tearing that chills the spine
Do you have the resolve to break it?

The tip* of my sword in the evening sky
Resembles the fragrant crescent moon
Time and time again I disappear completely
To the flame of my sword

The third blade, like the eternal blaze of hatred's flame

The fourth blade, unperturbed like the mountain

I’ve resolved never to cry again
Even with blood spilling from my body
The song of sentinels, is “wind, forest, fire, mountain” *
Has the prayer already finished?

Along with your absurdities
Repent until you’re broken fragments
At least live as a warrior to the end
Live beautifully, to hell

Conversely let me ask, in your heart
Is there something you can’t hand over?
Time and time again... for a journey towards salvation,
Purify yourself

Everything is mortal…nothing is permanent…

Thousands, ten thousands, hundreds of millions of lives
I grasp and wield them all
A tearing that chills the spine
Do you have the resolve to break it?

The tip of my sword in the evening sky
Resembles the fragrant crescent moon
These wings that whip the wind endlessly,
Go forth!

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Trivia

The chanting in the beginning of the song are doctrines of Buddhism: Impermanence of Worldly Things, The Law of Creation and Destruction, Transcending Life and Death and Entering Nirvana, Freedom from Desires is True Bliss.

"Supernatural evil": literally “Hundred Demon Night March”, from Japanese folklore but used to convey a dread or fear of an evil that seems almost supernatural.

Tip: not "tip”, as in the very point of the sword, but rather for a katana, the phrase used means the sharp edge of the last few inches of the blade, which is curved like the crescent moon.

From Sun Tzu’s Art of War, “Fast as wind, Silent as the forest, Fierce as fire, Immovable as the mountain”, also reflected in the song with the descriptions of the four swords.